Adages Quote by James Thurber

Sadly, a lot of our traditions are fading away and theatre can be a great tool to ensure that it doesn't happen.

— Himani Shivpuri

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

— Beatrice Wood

American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really…

— Kelli O'Hara

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work.…

— Tony Kushner

“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I think it's…

— Mac Wellman

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power…

— Lynn Nottage

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual,…

— Gerald Early

The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.

— Lynn Nottage

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

— Twyla Tharp

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

— Thornton Wilder

There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather have no…

— Margo Jones